Accustomed to cashless apps, taxi passengers forget to give directions—or pay; it’s ‘dining and dashing, but for a cab’

Kai McCorvey was getting out of a cab in Chicago when she felt the driver grab her by the heel. Her first thought: “What is going on?” Her second thought: “I didn’t already pay for this ride.”

The 24-year-old sales analyst is so accustomed to rideshare apps like Uber, which charge your credit card automatically when your ride is done, that she’d accidentally almost pulled “the equivalent of dining and dashing, but for a cab.”